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Greeting's Again Mary O' Italy. Trawled death Index registers (G.R.O. Site ) 1901. ~ 1928.( No Missing Qrt's ) The only one worthy of Note :~ Oct. ~ Nov. ~ Dec. Qrt. 1904. HARRY Day. Aged. 78. Leicester. Cert. No. 7a. 156. Age is about spot on just different Christian name But typing errors do happen. ? ...... He was not on my Welford Road details The closest was :~ DAY HARRY 1916 Jul 1 Aged. 66 Swain Street Leicester Ck 216 C C56200 Swain Street = Hillcrest Workhouse / Hospital. ( Apr~Mar.~Jun. Qrt. cert No. 7 a. 286. ) Bear in mind WW. I. Happened during this period. Hill Crest Hospital ( Sparkenoe Workhouse ) would have been used for casualties So. .... it's possible his death details (Pauper Burial ) was not passed on to Registers Office ? Worth ordering that Certificate though. ? Did Rebecca die Young. ...... 40'ish ? MIKE.

There's a thought - he's Henry or Henery on all the censuses, so I hadn't thought to search for Harry. Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, Rebecca died young - in 1866, at the age of 42.

Hey Mary, Have you found your Henry Day on Historical Directories, Melvilles 1854, in Belgrave Gate? My Henry Butler and Thomas Hollins were Boot and Shoemakers in Leicester around the same time (and a bit earlier) - fair bet that they knew your chap!! Maggie http://www.historicaldirectories.org/Exe/ZyNET.exe/00004A9P.txt ?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=Historical+Directories&Index =Historical%20Directories&Query=day%20henry&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict =n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&UseQField=&File=E%3A%5CZYIMAGE%5CDATA %5CHISTDIR%5CTXT%5C00000000%5C00004A9P.txt&User=anonymous&Password=anonymous& SortMethod=f%3ACounty&MaximumDocuments=10&FuzzyDegree=0&Image Quality=r85g16/r85g16/x150y150g16/i425&Display=hpfr&Def SeekPage=f&SearchBack=ZyActionE&Back=ZyActionS&Back Desc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=f

Greeting’s Again. ……. Mary O’ Italy. Looks like Rebecca’s burial details Welford Road Cemetery All within Plot No.U.Q. 1333. C DAY REBECCA 1866 DEC 14 42 GRAFTON PLACE SAINT MARGARET 17996 C DAY Henry 1877 Nov 10 23 Belgrave Gate Saint Margaret 39197 C DAY Janet 1880 Dec 14 28 Archdeacon Lane Saint Margaret 45950 C RANDALL Thomas 1897 May 20 15mths Loughborough Cottages Leicester 81054 F GARNER Eliza Ann 1925 Sep 5 27 Isolation Hospital Leicester 114864 Plot Q 1333 & 1334 F THOMPSON Lilian Jane 1929 Jan 19 4 31 Hastings Road Leicester 118019 F GARNER John Tom 1933 Oct 5 5 Groby Road San. / 181 Curzon Street Leicester 121927 [Sanatorium] Just wonder if Henry / Harry was Cremated ? Gilroes Crematoria was opened about this time ( c.1904.) MIKE.

Thanks, Mike, yes, that's Rebecca - the Grafton Street address is where she lived with Henry and children. Your list shows two Days buried in the same plot as Rebecca. One is her daughter Janet, who died in 1880 at the age of 28. No idea what the Archdeacon Lane address is - none of the family lived there as far as I know. She must have been in lodgings. The other is a Henry Day d. 1877 aged 23 of Belgrave Gate. The age is obviously wrong for Rebecca's husband, and she didn't have a son Henry as far as I know (nothing on the censuses). However, she did have a son William Day born c. 1855 who I couldn't find after 1861. I did find a possible candidate who moved to London, came back to Leicester and got married, but I'm now wondering if William was known as Henry and this is him. I don't have his birth cert., but this seems to be the most likely birth: Births Dec 1854 (>99%) Day William Henry Leicester 7a 162 There's an entry in the 1871 census for Henery Day, born in Leicester abt 1855, who was a boarder at a beerhouse at 94 Belgrave Gate. This could well be the Henry buried with Rebecca. I might get that cert., because I've been wondering what happened to William. The Belgrave Gate address is interesting, because it fits with what Maggie found in the 1854 trade directory (thanks, Maggie, I'd missed that one!). The family were living with Rebecca's parents in Burgess Street in 1851 and in Grafton Street in 1861, but Belgrave Gate isn't all that far away, so maybe Henry Sr had a shop there and Henry Jr worked there with him or lived there later. After Rebecca died, the other three children (Janet, Louisa and Elizabeth) were taken in by my GGgrandfather Joseph Pool and his wife. Janet died in 1880, and her sister Louisa Ann Freer died in 1884, at only 32. At least two of Louisa's children died in childhood, and I'm still looking for the third on the censuses. The only child of Rebecca's who was still alive in 1901 was Elizabeth. Not a very fortunate family.

Just noticed another loose end I'd like to tie up in this family (sorry to monopolise the thread...) I found the following burial on familyhistoryonline: Place Leicester, Welford Road Name EMILY DAY Date 2 AUG 1866 Age 5WKS Consecrated ground C Rebecca died in December 1866, and I wondered if this was her child (Rebecca's death cert is one of many on my ever-growing list of certs to get). However, if that was the case I would have expected them to be buried together. Could you see if you can find who Emily's buried with on your discs, Mike?

Greeting’s Again. ……… Mary O’ Italy. Oh Dear…… Sad reading……. Just hope they are not your Relatives Welford Road Cemetery. All within Plot. C.L.1403. L 1403 C DAY Clara 1865 Apr 18 10wks Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 8777 L 1403 C DAY * EMILY * 1866 Aug 2 5wks Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 9620 L 1403 C DAY Emma 1867 Jul 4 6wks Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 10262 L 1403 C DAY Kate 1868 Jun 21 1mth Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 10937 L 1403 C DAY Sheldon Alfred 1869 Aug 19 3mths Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 11765 L 1403 C DAY Charles 1870 Aug 12 3mths Thornton Lane Saint Nicholas 12526 MIKE. UPDATED :~ Greeting’s Again. ……… Mary O’ Italy. Here’s your Archdeacon Lane connection :~ Welford Road Cemetery ALL within Plot. No. U. S. 787. :~ 787 C BURBIDGE --- 1874 JUL 16 STBN LEAD STREET SAINT MARGARET 32286 CHILD OF ANN CAROLINE 787 C FREER Walter Henry 1874 Jul 16 6mths Archdeacon Lane Saint Margaret 32287 787 C FREER John Henry 1877 Aug 28 6wks Archdeacon Lane Saint Margaret 38792 787 C FREER Janet 1881 May 27 7mths Archdeacon Lane Saint Margaret 46848 787 C FREER James 1883 May 12 7mths Archdeacon Lane Saint Margaret 51090 787 C FREER * LOUISE ANN 1884 JUN 27 30 ARCHDEACON LANE SAINT MARGARET 53287 787 C CROWDELL Reginald Arthur 1914 Dec 14 4mths North E. Infirmary Leicester 101662 [Evington] 787 F OVERTON Henry 1932 Jan 28 65 C.G.H. / 82 Laxton Street Leicester 120625 [City General Hospital] 787 F OVERTON Sarah Ann 1945 Feb 1 75 82 Laxton Street Leicester 129000 The top one of a stillborn buried the same time as Walter Henry Freer This was the normal thing for a still born to be buried with some one else If the parents could not afford a burial. MIKE.

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